Advanced Placement Computer Science

Initially, I had a negative view on group working because of the challenges that I had. When I was in high school, my five other friends and I used to work together in a music competition. Although we were supposed to get together to practice

These group projects have caused me to develop excellent problem solving skills. On several

Throughout middle school and my freshmen year of high school, I was never extremely comfortable in large group projects. For most of my life, I preferred to work alone or do most of the work in group projects. There was a time, however, in my sophomore Project Lead the Way class where my teacher was explaining to us the grave importance of group work and how it translates into the real world of engineering. After the speech, we were put in groups of eight to solve simple engineering problems, and I began to push myself to interact with my unknown peers. Slowly but surely, I grew more comfortable in group scenarios and kept pushing myself forward. Looking forward to today, I am a captain of my soccer team and a constant leader in group projects

My role in the project was make sure all our ideas followed within the guidelines of the instructions.  I would occasionally throw an idea out to my peers, but with an introverted group I usually wouldn't get much feedback.  As the project came to expiration I learned that even though sometimes being in a group makes the work load lighter it can also occasionally make the work harder since it's more difficult to mold multiple individuals preconceptions into one

I think I will argue against group projects. I argue because if there is that one person that does not do anything thn that will bring your grade down. Or if you are paired with people you don't like then you won't want to do the assignment as much. That is why I argue against group projects.

Everyone remembers the times in middle school when their teachers would force them to work in groups of people they may or may not have liked. They would cause fights among the students in the groups, bring grades down, and take more time and effort. All reasons I do not agree with group work, and am against it.

I have often dreaded group projects, throughout my 4 years at Dalhousie University, I’ve never really had a good experience with them. So going into this class, my expectations were really low. I didn’t expect that I would actually enjoy working on these modules, and so much that I’ve worked with the same team for all 3 modules. This arrangement has allowed us to continue to develop our writing, research and presentations skills, as well as improve upon weaknesses, in our previous modules as well as personal skills that we want to improve. Personally, through these modules I have developed my presentations skills further, and through this particular module, I learned how to approach a problem or project from a different perspective, from different stakeholders.

Some introverts don't like doing group projects because

The first reason I agree with group projects is it gives students a chance to make new relationships. Frequently, I'm put into a group with people that I don't know. For instance, this girl was in my group that I had never met before, but I have seen her around school. We talked and I got to know a lot of things about her that I had never expected to know. By just talking for a little bit, I learned so much, which helped our group work better because I knew her strengths and weakness.

Advanced Placement classes sent me to the hospital. Education has always been a blessing for my family and I. Both my parents only speak Spanish and little to no understanding of English. That is why at a young age, I learned to be a translator when my parents needed help. Therefore, I aimed to make my parents happy by academically performing well in school and helping my younger siblings at home do the same. I came across Advanced Placement and Honors classes near the end of my first year of high school. I realized that I was bored in my regular English class, but I thought nothing of it because I thought it was the same for every student. I earned an A+, and my counselor introduced me to Honors classes. I relished the Pre-AP Language Arts

During the projects, I find myself jumping in and leading the group too soon. I do not give them enough time to work as a group because I do not want to take the chance of having a lack of student engagement. I believe that if I implement this component into my instructional time, it will help the students to create ideas different from my expectations and it will allow for group work to be productive, which in turn, will create better life skills for the students as they progress through adulthood. This is one strategy that I could find useful during my instructional

In my undergraduate work, almost all of my classes that were directly related to my major required at the least one group project. In the beginning this was not something I was very fond of mostly because I had some bad experiences when it came to working with others on projects. Usually it was the problem of people not pulling their own weight, and doing their parts to help with the tasks. When it came time to have the assignment complete it was even harder to give a grade to those people. I did not want to be the guy who caused someone to throw someone under the bus. However, after I thought about it, I did want to be that guy because in the real world on a work project if there was someone who did not pull their weight in the job projects would not be successful. So, when it came time for grades, I was always honest, and usually if a person did not do their part I told it how it was.

As I sit here to this day group work is still not my favorite thing it makes me angry when professors mention it. I feel as if we are now in college not in high school. We should be treated as one person when doing an assignment. So you could see each potential of each

I used to believe that I did not perform very well in groups. I am an observer who likes to learn alone. I thought I learned best when I worked on my own. Even though I always knew group work had many positive values, I was more comfortable with the lecture-based approach and resisted group work merely because it involved change, not because it had a collaborative learning approach. However, during the learning community project, I came to realize that I learn more effectively when I work in groups. Working in a group was like an adventure for me; there were both exciting and challenging times while preparing for the learning community project.

It’s almost impossible to avoid group projects or team activities in today’s society. Most people have been a part of a team. Nearly everyone has had to complete a group project for a class. Now within these situations, many have experienced one person in the group that did not contribute to the project or team and there was another person who took over the entire project and wanted to do everything on the team. The many consequences of this is the disruption of team cohesion and holding the team back, inhibiting them from completing the task at hand. This can definitely transfer over to the workplace. This is the cause of an individualistic attitude. You can find them giving excuses for why they do not work in teams or be in a group for their work, they can say “I do not work well with others,” “I am too busy to meet with a team,” “I do not want to be stuck with a procrastinator,” and “I’ll wind up doing all the work anyway.” Although these are very undesirable circumstances the point of working in a team is to be effective and efficient. Managers are searching for quality and quantity as a result of and employees work and they believe working in a group or within a team will generate quality work at a faster pace. Now if an employee were demonstrating such behavior, the organization must handle it at once and not allow it to happen